Hi! A couple months ago I realized that between 9:00-10:00 at night my internet connection would slow down do about a ping of 400+. I assumed it was because many people around my town were using the internet and thought nothing much of it. After 10:00 it would stop and things will continue as normal. More recently, though, it has been starting around 7:00-8:00. I'm more active on my laptop around these times, and it's becoming a very big problem. No one else in my house has a slow connection at all throughout the day, and my phone doesn't experience this issue either. I have taken the assumption that this is something with my laptop. I decided to try and fix the issue myself, but seem to have only made it worse. I revert all my changes and it's still worse. Now it's on for 5 minutes, off for 5 minutes. It seems to have just stopped, as it's past 10:00, allowing me to type this out. Anyway, as far as I can tell I have my drivers updated completely, and everything is working properly. I have absolutely no idea what might be causing this. If anyone has any ideas or has experienced this before please tell me. Additionally, if you need me to attach any screenshots of anything, just let me know. Thank you in advance.

We understand that you have been experiencing some connectivity issues with your Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 7265 adapter.

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Another thing to keep in mind is that VPNs modify your network driver. We can suggest making sure that your VPN software is up to date. You can also temporarily uninstall this software to see if the issue goes away.

It seems to have not worked too well. I didn't see much downtime in my connection for a while, but after about 8:30 tonight it started getting wobbly, and now it's sometimes great solid connection like watching YouTube videos at 1080p without buffering, and sometimes very bad like can't watch YouTube videos at 144p without buffering. I attached a Wlan report with which I can only hope that sends correctly.

This is odd since you mentioned nobody else connecting to your network is having this issue.

Does this happen regardless of where you are in relation to your router?Have you tried uninstalling your VPN software?

It's also possible that this may be due to your router, as some have limitations on how many devices may connect. And once this limit is reached, some devices are placed lower on the routers "priority list," if you may. This is often called Quality of Service (QoS) or Media Access Control (MAC).

In this case, you could check to see if your router's firmware can be updated. Or consider upgrading to a newer (802.11n or 802.11ac) router, which would result in the most marked improvement.

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I have not tested it this happens elsewhere in my house, and considering I'm on a laptop, I could test it. The problem is, I have my laptop set up at my desk, and it would be very difficult to permanently move it to a more reliable location. Additionally, our router was set up in it's place, and the only way we could move it closer to me is to have someone from CenturyLink come in and move it for us.

I just uninstalled my VPN software, and although I never have it on, it shouldn't be running in the background if it had been.

I tried out the QoS system and found that it's actually already enabled. The link provided didn't help much with my service provider (CenturyLink) as it's far different than the examples they used. I don't completely understand what I was looking for, but there was some options. First option was "Enable" and "Disable". Second option was "Upstream" and "Downstream" and it was on upstream. I tried turning off QoS to see if it helps much, considering it's already on, and I have yet to see any results. I also couldn't find a way to set priority over other devices.

I'm not sure how to check if my routers firmware actually needs to be upgraded, nor am I sure as to how I go about doing so. After checking through my Modem Configuration page, I found this: Wireless Mode: 802.11b - 802.11g - 802.11n Mode

I'm not sure, but I think that's saying I'm using all of those? Honestly, I don't actually know what they mean in the slightest.

Next time you have a slow connection you could move your laptop closer to the router to see if the issue continues (for troubleshooting, not permanently). If it goes away, it's possible that something is causing interference making it harder for the signal to reach you sporadically. If it doesn't, then we know it may be a configuration or priority list type issue.

Wireless standards are complicated, if you don't know much about them, you're probably just lucky and haven't passed through this headache before. They're not entirely logical either:

Standard

Release Date

802.11b

1999

802.11a

(later in) 1999

802.11g

2002

802.11n

2007

802.11ac

2013

Currently you're connecting through 802.11g, but your adapter seems capable of 802.11n (which is a bit old, but very common still).

In this case it may be best to contact your service provider, they should be able to help you configure your router either to set up QoS or to find out why you're connecting to 802.11g and not wireless-N. If you're lucky they may be able to upgrade your router.

Relating to all this, we have the following book available for free on our website. Once you get past the slightly condescending title, it does actually contain some very good and useful information:

Please help i am facing the same problem it has ruined my new laptop hp probook 450 g4 intel if this adapter is worse so stop producing it. You waste all my money and also stop producing and wifi adapter you could not produce good wifi. Intel adapter just ruins pc. I will change the adapter with realtek and will never buy laptop having intel wifi adapter. Intel ********* wifi adapters.

This particular issue turned out to be a network, not an adapter issue. However, we'll be more than glad to assist.

Was this adapter originally installed in your system, or an upgrade?

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